How about adding an RPN mode? I know it is not that popular, but I still prefer it for rapid calculations in chains. So much quicker to type and figure out the numbers as you go along then adding all the parens, etc.
Was going through my bill the other day, and noticed the 'Regional Sports Fee'. $6 a month for something I never use as I don't watch sports. So I call the satellite provider and say, please drop all sports channels from my subscription, as I don't watch them and don't want to pay the fee. Surprise, they don't have any packages, except the very base one with almost no channels, that don't have the sports channels on them, so you have to pay the fee.
They really need to get ala carte going or I am going to cancel it completely. I just want a few basic channels to record things off of for shows that I like and that does not include any of the expensive channels that they have. My time is limited, or I would probably explore getting all of this setup off of the internet with a DVR functionality, but it is purposefully difficult right now. They could keep me as a customer if they just had packages targeted at this. In fact they used to have an option where they dropped the sports but kept everything else (although they did not advertise it), but recently ended that as well.
As it turned out, after complaining and threatening to cancel, low and behold they can suddenly give me $60 a month credit for the next year to get my bill inline with what I am willing to pay... I mean the satellite is already in the air, the equipment is in the house, the rest is gravy for them. Just offer choice of individual channels and I bet a lot of people would stay. Make a million pennies instead of a few dollars....
Take a look at the S8 Active. I got that, and it has a metal edge to it, nice backplate, and flat glass. It is mil rated and waterproof. It also has a 4000mah battery so it will run for 2 days easy. Yes, it is a bit heavier, but I don't need a case so that makes up for it.
And for me, I hate the curved screen and this one is flat.
Seems most people don't understand what this is doing. It looks like it is using Caffe standard neural network libraries. It mentions 'limited' layer support, but not by how much. Specifically it says it will support convolutional neural networks, which are decent image detectors. They could be used for object detection, handwriting recognition, etc.
You then cross compile your network using their toolkit to run on this device, and much like GPUs and tensorflow, you get high powered processing of your network. When married with a low power CPU, this could allow you to do CNN processing on devices that were not otherwise up to the task.
That said, exactly how performant this is remains to be seen. Although at only $80, it is a pretty cheap experiment and somewhat interesting as an idea.
I wonder if you can plug it into your Edison, though?:-)
It's the nickle and diming. Obviously I can pay to do that or I would not have water, but why should I be? It is only because it is a form of lobbied for taxes that you must continue to pay. So I also have a new garbage fee that used to be on my property tax, because of reasons. Why not just put it on the property tax like it used to be? You pay it even if you don't get garbage service. Then there is the automobile safety inspection, of which they literally check the light bulbs and your tires and pretend to look it over at Jiffy Lube. Yeah, that is worth the $40 (and no, this does not include emissions that is separate). It is examples of hidden lobbied for fees that are in essence taxes and are not necessary at all.
I brought the backflow valve up only because I just had to have it done again. Asked the only guy up here how many he has seen fail, and the answer was zero after installation. So basically over 10,000 people are paying $200 for no reason....
Sales tax is often above 6%, even here in Utah. There are state, county and city components to it. The federal gas tax is the low part. State more than doubles that. We pay an additional 29 cents a gallon on that. Given the cost of gas that is an effective 25%ish tax rate. Social security tax is very significant amount, varying by income.
Then again remember the second half of the equation. We are required to by health insurance and nothing is covered. We have to pay out of pocket on top of that to use the health insurance. We have to save for our own retirement as we do not get government pensions back out of our money, and in fact can't even really start collecting social security (our own money) until later and later years. Now approaching the average age that a male dies. We basically get very little for our tax money, and have to make up that difference ourselves, costing us more.
This means that the real effective tax rate is higher, and actual cost of living can be quite high do to the lack of services provided for your taxes. The corporations get cheap tax rates, the extremely rich pay very little, and the middle class carries a significant portion of the tax burden. Look at the effective rate the middle class pays and what they get.
Except once again, this isn't even close to an approximation of what an individual tax payer pays from his income. This takes into account corporate taxes, which are crazy low in the US with all of the shelters, deductions, and dodges. They are looking at the summation of all taxes collected against GDP....
I don't think anyone thinks that America's income taxes straight out are that high. But now add in property taxes, which are very significant, social security, etc. That really starts to cover the effective tax rate that you really pay. Then also all the government 'fees' and requirements you pay (required backflow valve inspections at your cost, etc.). Finally, consider what you actually get for it, as we don't get government pensions or healthcare or any kinds of real social service for this money.
So basically they really aren't counting the total real taxes paid, and aren't considering the value of those taxes. Not sure how really useful this comparison is at the end of the day.....
OK, my bet is they are using tensorflow or another neural network behind this with supervised training. NNs are great at performing classifications by basically correlating everything to everything, but they really rely on valid output data to match the input data. Saying some audience rated the post as 'toxic' is really a bad methodology of training such a network. They will likely have a ton of bias based on the audience they have, such that in a democratic website, probably anything that was said by trump will classify as toxic, but on the same exact input on a republican website, it would classify as the greatest thing ever. Not very useful in the real world.
Now in reality if you diversify the sample enough to account for this, it would end up as neutrally activated and if the correct NN were used, would end up as a wash. That is very hard to do, though, as you would need to account for a lot of community biases.
It would be far more interesting if they used unsupervised training and let the posts gather themselves using a technique such as bag of words or other such proven technologies to do more of a sentiment analysis type approach. Then you could be looking out for posts that tended to be 'extremist' in nature, 'low in content' that is not worth your time, etc. That would be far more interesting, allow you to get some idea about the quality of the post, and not be prone to the community bias as it would be based on what was actually written, rather than what some reviewer thought of it.
My guess is google knows this, but also realizes that this will play well with people, as it will introduce a confirmation bias into the results. The people who use this in their own communities will suddenly see all those posts they disagree with, and are thus toxic, disappear. See it works!
Instead what they should be filtering out is all of the posts that spout the same falsehoods again and again, which unsupervised learning would help with. I want to read ideas that are contrary to mine in order to debate and learn. What I don't want to read are the thousands of posts spouting the same false rhetoric again and again. It makes reading any comments on a news group almost intolerable, no matter what their political slant.
Uber tried this same stunt in Utah at the Sundance film festival. They decided they didn't need a permit to land choppers in a regular neighborhood right in town. For a whole day the damn things were flying low over people's houses and dropping off people in a field next to someone's house. No safety equipment, lights, nor even a proper walkway. Just some spray paint on a field
They claimed they had the right and didn't need a permit. It all stopped when the local sheriff informed the pilot of the chopper that if he landed one more time he would impound the chopper and that would be it. Uber then tried to claim they could use the helipad at the sheriff's office under FAA rules. You can guess at this point the pilot had enough and was not willing to continue.
Then we had to pass a bunch of explicit rules against this at the county level, all due to this foolishness and publicity stunt that clearly was not about actually starting an uber chopper business. I expect this will turn out the same.
Sounds like a response from an AC who maybe doesn't have a job and can take the time to queue up all songs manually..... Sometimes it is nice to just have songs chosen for you that you might not actually have thought of as related, while you are doing another task such as working or driving. I am sorry that my choice to enjoy this feature deserves my extermination in your eyes. AC's opinion is noted duly....
There are several additional features available through it such as photo tagging, fingerprinting of music, better grouping of songs to give you a 'plex mix' option, and early access to new features.
The best reason to pay for the pass is the same reason as any other open source software. If you don't pony up some money when you find software like this useful, it will cease to exist. If you want new features and new capabilities down the road, the best way to ensure this is to give them the few dollars to help keep them going. It's not like their price is unreasonable for what they deliver.
Ultimately your choice, as the free version is definitely very capable, but I choose to support their efforts with real dollars.
Honestly it is much more than that. Like a song you are listening to? You can queue up a 'plex mix' which queues other songs similar to the one you are listening to. Actually works pretty good. Need to transcode that video from a codec not supported on your playback device? Plex does this. I even have one running on a raspberry pi in my truck with my music on it. I have an android car radio, and run their client as my music in the truck. Can pick a genre, song, etc and queue a plex mix while I am driving. All running on Linux. Also downloads and manages trailers for movies, etc. Want to watch a movie or listen to a song while at your hotel on business, or on the road? Plex provides an interface for that as well, with bandwidth optimization with re-encoding.
BTW, most of this functionality is available in the free version. If you want some of the more advanced features, you can choose to pay them for it. I pay for the pass primarily because I want to support their development of a server that really is great for all your media.
Or you could simply use an SMB share for all your music and hunt around by filename. A very different experience. I haven't even scratched the surface on the organizational capabilities for large collections that plex provides.
And oddly people continue to shout, rather than being listened to in a hidden manner.
This is why I do not participate in things like Facebook. This is a wealth of information about what you do that is freely out there for the government to use for this kind of activity. They don't even have to have a listening device in your house, people voluntarily put all of this up there for them to parse and monitor on a daily basis. This is what the government (and never mind your future employer) will use to make the determination about where your loyalties lie.
Of course then what does posting nothing on these sites say about you as well then?:-)
As Dr. Strangelove put it:
1) How is it possible for this thing to be triggered automatically and at the same time impossible to untrigger? 2) Mister President, it is not only possible, it is *essential*! That's the whold idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of placing in the mind of the enemy the *fear* to attack! So because of the automated and irrevokable decision making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday Machine is terrifying, simple to understand, and completely credible and convincing. 3) Gee, I wish we had one of them Doomsday Machines! (full quote)
And of course don't forget:
Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world?
Then they aren't really tech or STEM hires, like the article is talking about..... Giving them more exposure to STEM at a younger age is not going to help them much at getting hired as marketers, sales, or HR.... Anyone can do support and I sure hope we are not trying to get more of our young minorities working at call center jobs.....
In 2013, 18% of bachelor’s degrees in computing were earned by women
How in the heck do they expect to get equal numbers of female and male people into programming jobs in the field. It would seem 'equal' hiring would be around 18% of the population of programmers to make it apples to apples. That would indicate 'fair' hiring.
That said, I do believe in encouraging everyone to get more experience in STEM at a younger age, then to make informed decisions about if this is a career they would like to pursue. It is nuts to me that they are trying to hire 50% of the work force out of 18% of the graduates. That is just not going to work. Just goes to prove we really do need better math education at all levels.....
You could say that about any profession. My wife is a physician and she tells people who say they want to be a doctor that "if you can imagine yourself doing anything else you probably should". That job is too hard and takes too much from you to bother with if it isn't a calling. Furthermore that pretty much contradicts your point above. If they don't have a passion for software development why are you pushing them into it if it isn't their thing? I'm an engineer and I've done enough programming to know that it isn't what I want to do for a living and also that I'm not particularly good at it.
Because I hear about all of those physician layoffs that are happening and how they are being replaced with over seas workers and young kids out of college. And I always hear about how older physicians can never learn and how they age out at 40....
Again, it is the crappy attitude of the industry I am talking about, and the sad state of the code. If you are really, really passionate about coding (such as I am) you can muddle your way through it, but you have to be ultra passionate. I think every professional career requires dedication, but most have a lot more longevity and actually respect people who have been at it for a bit.
Because they will then turn around and say they can not find any software engineers, and then have to hire H1-B workers. The definition of an H1-B worker is pretty much a beginner-level software developer, if that. Having worked with many who claim 'senior level', I can state this as a generality. So instead invest in the workers you already have, who know your culture, and give them a chance. If they fail, so be it and part your ways. If they do not want to enter software at all, then again, they can leave and not even have to get a severance package.
It is about giving people opportunities and investing in people. May sound silly to many on this board, but I firmly believe in mentoring people. Give me someone who is the best coder in the world but has a crappy attitude vs someone who wants to learn and is passionate, but maybe has some what of a way to go, and I will take the passionate one.
I am amazed at the number of layoffs in the tech industry these days, yet we continue to dump money into these code camp programs, and other STEM initiatives of dubious value. Here we have 14,000 tech workers who probably could be retrained to work with software and yet we will dump money into these programs to train the next generation, and hiring H1-B workers instead. You know these people are likely intelligent and could use the leg up to fill the gaps the company has, and instead it is just dump them on the street.
This is the real tech world folks. Keep your kids out of it unless they absolutely love it on their own. It is an ageist world which has no loyalty to workers at all, and falsely believes that people can't be retrained. It is not the kind of place you want to make a career out of unless it is your absolute passion, and even then you will be discouraged every day by things like this.
I mean really, we aren't that far off from it when we start eating this kind of heavily processed food. Why not just mix this stuff into solids and throw it in a bag and eat it out of a bowl?
It is not that hard to cook simple meals. Heck, cook up a big pot of something on one day, and eat leftovers if you are short on time. At least you know what is in it, and it is going to be much, much cheaper. I just cooked up a big pot of Himalayan bahl dat (lentils) and some spiced rice last night and I would be surprised if it took me 15 minutes of effort. I now have a healthy breakfast (this is actually what the Himalayans eat) for the week that costs me about 3 dollars. Throw a piece of chicken on the grill. How long does that take?
I am really surprised this kind of over processed food is even slightly popular in this day and age.
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How about adding an RPN mode? I know it is not that popular, but I still prefer it for rapid calculations in chains. So much quicker to type and figure out the numbers as you go along then adding all the parens, etc.
It's California, they are just showing up to work for the day then. If you scheduled it at 10am, nobody would be there yet.....
Was going through my bill the other day, and noticed the 'Regional Sports Fee'. $6 a month for something I never use as I don't watch sports. So I call the satellite provider and say, please drop all sports channels from my subscription, as I don't watch them and don't want to pay the fee. Surprise, they don't have any packages, except the very base one with almost no channels, that don't have the sports channels on them, so you have to pay the fee.
They really need to get ala carte going or I am going to cancel it completely. I just want a few basic channels to record things off of for shows that I like and that does not include any of the expensive channels that they have. My time is limited, or I would probably explore getting all of this setup off of the internet with a DVR functionality, but it is purposefully difficult right now. They could keep me as a customer if they just had packages targeted at this. In fact they used to have an option where they dropped the sports but kept everything else (although they did not advertise it), but recently ended that as well.
As it turned out, after complaining and threatening to cancel, low and behold they can suddenly give me $60 a month credit for the next year to get my bill inline with what I am willing to pay... I mean the satellite is already in the air, the equipment is in the house, the rest is gravy for them. Just offer choice of individual channels and I bet a lot of people would stay. Make a million pennies instead of a few dollars....
Take a look at the S8 Active. I got that, and it has a metal edge to it, nice backplate, and flat glass. It is mil rated and waterproof. It also has a 4000mah battery so it will run for 2 days easy. Yes, it is a bit heavier, but I don't need a case so that makes up for it.
And for me, I hate the curved screen and this one is flat.
Seems most people don't understand what this is doing. It looks like it is using Caffe standard neural network libraries. It mentions 'limited' layer support, but not by how much. Specifically it says it will support convolutional neural networks, which are decent image detectors. They could be used for object detection, handwriting recognition, etc.
:-)
You then cross compile your network using their toolkit to run on this device, and much like GPUs and tensorflow, you get high powered processing of your network. When married with a low power CPU, this could allow you to do CNN processing on devices that were not otherwise up to the task.
That said, exactly how performant this is remains to be seen. Although at only $80, it is a pretty cheap experiment and somewhat interesting as an idea.
I wonder if you can plug it into your Edison, though?
It's the nickle and diming. Obviously I can pay to do that or I would not have water, but why should I be? It is only because it is a form of lobbied for taxes that you must continue to pay. So I also have a new garbage fee that used to be on my property tax, because of reasons. Why not just put it on the property tax like it used to be? You pay it even if you don't get garbage service. Then there is the automobile safety inspection, of which they literally check the light bulbs and your tires and pretend to look it over at Jiffy Lube. Yeah, that is worth the $40 (and no, this does not include emissions that is separate). It is examples of hidden lobbied for fees that are in essence taxes and are not necessary at all.
I brought the backflow valve up only because I just had to have it done again. Asked the only guy up here how many he has seen fail, and the answer was zero after installation. So basically over 10,000 people are paying $200 for no reason....
Sales tax is often above 6%, even here in Utah. There are state, county and city components to it. The federal gas tax is the low part. State more than doubles that. We pay an additional 29 cents a gallon on that. Given the cost of gas that is an effective 25%ish tax rate. Social security tax is very significant amount, varying by income.
Then again remember the second half of the equation. We are required to by health insurance and nothing is covered. We have to pay out of pocket on top of that to use the health insurance. We have to save for our own retirement as we do not get government pensions back out of our money, and in fact can't even really start collecting social security (our own money) until later and later years. Now approaching the average age that a male dies. We basically get very little for our tax money, and have to make up that difference ourselves, costing us more.
This means that the real effective tax rate is higher, and actual cost of living can be quite high do to the lack of services provided for your taxes. The corporations get cheap tax rates, the extremely rich pay very little, and the middle class carries a significant portion of the tax burden. Look at the effective rate the middle class pays and what they get.
Except once again, this isn't even close to an approximation of what an individual tax payer pays from his income. This takes into account corporate taxes, which are crazy low in the US with all of the shelters, deductions, and dodges. They are looking at the summation of all taxes collected against GDP....
I don't think anyone thinks that America's income taxes straight out are that high. But now add in property taxes, which are very significant, social security, etc. That really starts to cover the effective tax rate that you really pay. Then also all the government 'fees' and requirements you pay (required backflow valve inspections at your cost, etc.). Finally, consider what you actually get for it, as we don't get government pensions or healthcare or any kinds of real social service for this money.
So basically they really aren't counting the total real taxes paid, and aren't considering the value of those taxes. Not sure how really useful this comparison is at the end of the day.....
OK, my bet is they are using tensorflow or another neural network behind this with supervised training. NNs are great at performing classifications by basically correlating everything to everything, but they really rely on valid output data to match the input data. Saying some audience rated the post as 'toxic' is really a bad methodology of training such a network. They will likely have a ton of bias based on the audience they have, such that in a democratic website, probably anything that was said by trump will classify as toxic, but on the same exact input on a republican website, it would classify as the greatest thing ever. Not very useful in the real world.
Now in reality if you diversify the sample enough to account for this, it would end up as neutrally activated and if the correct NN were used, would end up as a wash. That is very hard to do, though, as you would need to account for a lot of community biases.
It would be far more interesting if they used unsupervised training and let the posts gather themselves using a technique such as bag of words or other such proven technologies to do more of a sentiment analysis type approach. Then you could be looking out for posts that tended to be 'extremist' in nature, 'low in content' that is not worth your time, etc. That would be far more interesting, allow you to get some idea about the quality of the post, and not be prone to the community bias as it would be based on what was actually written, rather than what some reviewer thought of it.
My guess is google knows this, but also realizes that this will play well with people, as it will introduce a confirmation bias into the results. The people who use this in their own communities will suddenly see all those posts they disagree with, and are thus toxic, disappear. See it works!
Instead what they should be filtering out is all of the posts that spout the same falsehoods again and again, which unsupervised learning would help with. I want to read ideas that are contrary to mine in order to debate and learn. What I don't want to read are the thousands of posts spouting the same false rhetoric again and again. It makes reading any comments on a news group almost intolerable, no matter what their political slant.
Uber tried this same stunt in Utah at the Sundance film festival. They decided they didn't need a permit to land choppers in a regular neighborhood right in town. For a whole day the damn things were flying low over people's houses and dropping off people in a field next to someone's house. No safety equipment, lights, nor even a proper walkway. Just some spray paint on a field
They claimed they had the right and didn't need a permit. It all stopped when the local sheriff informed the pilot of the chopper that if he landed one more time he would impound the chopper and that would be it. Uber then tried to claim they could use the helipad at the sheriff's office under FAA rules. You can guess at this point the pilot had enough and was not willing to continue.
Then we had to pass a bunch of explicit rules against this at the county level, all due to this foolishness and publicity stunt that clearly was not about actually starting an uber chopper business. I expect this will turn out the same.
Sounds like a response from an AC who maybe doesn't have a job and can take the time to queue up all songs manually..... Sometimes it is nice to just have songs chosen for you that you might not actually have thought of as related, while you are doing another task such as working or driving. I am sorry that my choice to enjoy this feature deserves my extermination in your eyes. AC's opinion is noted duly....
There are several additional features available through it such as photo tagging, fingerprinting of music, better grouping of songs to give you a 'plex mix' option, and early access to new features.
The best reason to pay for the pass is the same reason as any other open source software. If you don't pony up some money when you find software like this useful, it will cease to exist. If you want new features and new capabilities down the road, the best way to ensure this is to give them the few dollars to help keep them going. It's not like their price is unreasonable for what they deliver.
Ultimately your choice, as the free version is definitely very capable, but I choose to support their efforts with real dollars.
Honestly it is much more than that. Like a song you are listening to? You can queue up a 'plex mix' which queues other songs similar to the one you are listening to. Actually works pretty good. Need to transcode that video from a codec not supported on your playback device? Plex does this. I even have one running on a raspberry pi in my truck with my music on it. I have an android car radio, and run their client as my music in the truck. Can pick a genre, song, etc and queue a plex mix while I am driving. All running on Linux. Also downloads and manages trailers for movies, etc. Want to watch a movie or listen to a song while at your hotel on business, or on the road? Plex provides an interface for that as well, with bandwidth optimization with re-encoding.
BTW, most of this functionality is available in the free version. If you want some of the more advanced features, you can choose to pay them for it. I pay for the pass primarily because I want to support their development of a server that really is great for all your media.
Or you could simply use an SMB share for all your music and hunt around by filename. A very different experience. I haven't even scratched the surface on the organizational capabilities for large collections that plex provides.
https://www.plex.tv/blog/plex-...
A bit more insight into this in the announcement from the company itself rather than an article on the announcement.
And oddly people continue to shout, rather than being listened to in a hidden manner.
:-)
This is why I do not participate in things like Facebook. This is a wealth of information about what you do that is freely out there for the government to use for this kind of activity. They don't even have to have a listening device in your house, people voluntarily put all of this up there for them to parse and monitor on a daily basis. This is what the government (and never mind your future employer) will use to make the determination about where your loyalties lie.
Of course then what does posting nothing on these sites say about you as well then?
2. In the Trump University case, He didn't believe the judge would be fair, because he is of Mexican decent. That is blatantly racist.
3. His "look at my African American over there" comment while at a rally....is simply racist.
Since when is 'Mexican' a race? Who is the racist now?
As Dr. Strangelove put it: 1) How is it possible for this thing to be triggered automatically and at the same time impossible to untrigger? 2) Mister President, it is not only possible, it is *essential*! That's the whold idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of placing in the mind of the enemy the *fear* to attack! So because of the automated and irrevokable decision making process which rules out human meddling, the Doomsday Machine is terrifying, simple to understand, and completely credible and convincing. 3) Gee, I wish we had one of them Doomsday Machines! (full quote)
And of course don't forget:
Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday machine is lost if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world?
Mutual Assured Destruction makes little sense....
Then they aren't really tech or STEM hires, like the article is talking about..... Giving them more exposure to STEM at a younger age is not going to help them much at getting hired as marketers, sales, or HR.... Anyone can do support and I sure hope we are not trying to get more of our young minorities working at call center jobs.....
In 2013, 18% of bachelor’s degrees in computing were earned by women
How in the heck do they expect to get equal numbers of female and male people into programming jobs in the field. It would seem 'equal' hiring would be around 18% of the population of programmers to make it apples to apples. That would indicate 'fair' hiring.
That said, I do believe in encouraging everyone to get more experience in STEM at a younger age, then to make informed decisions about if this is a career they would like to pursue. It is nuts to me that they are trying to hire 50% of the work force out of 18% of the graduates. That is just not going to work. Just goes to prove we really do need better math education at all levels.....
You could say that about any profession. My wife is a physician and she tells people who say they want to be a doctor that "if you can imagine yourself doing anything else you probably should". That job is too hard and takes too much from you to bother with if it isn't a calling. Furthermore that pretty much contradicts your point above. If they don't have a passion for software development why are you pushing them into it if it isn't their thing? I'm an engineer and I've done enough programming to know that it isn't what I want to do for a living and also that I'm not particularly good at it.
Because I hear about all of those physician layoffs that are happening and how they are being replaced with over seas workers and young kids out of college. And I always hear about how older physicians can never learn and how they age out at 40.... Again, it is the crappy attitude of the industry I am talking about, and the sad state of the code. If you are really, really passionate about coding (such as I am) you can muddle your way through it, but you have to be ultra passionate. I think every professional career requires dedication, but most have a lot more longevity and actually respect people who have been at it for a bit.
Because they will then turn around and say they can not find any software engineers, and then have to hire H1-B workers. The definition of an H1-B worker is pretty much a beginner-level software developer, if that. Having worked with many who claim 'senior level', I can state this as a generality. So instead invest in the workers you already have, who know your culture, and give them a chance. If they fail, so be it and part your ways. If they do not want to enter software at all, then again, they can leave and not even have to get a severance package.
It is about giving people opportunities and investing in people. May sound silly to many on this board, but I firmly believe in mentoring people. Give me someone who is the best coder in the world but has a crappy attitude vs someone who wants to learn and is passionate, but maybe has some what of a way to go, and I will take the passionate one.
I am amazed at the number of layoffs in the tech industry these days, yet we continue to dump money into these code camp programs, and other STEM initiatives of dubious value. Here we have 14,000 tech workers who probably could be retrained to work with software and yet we will dump money into these programs to train the next generation, and hiring H1-B workers instead. You know these people are likely intelligent and could use the leg up to fill the gaps the company has, and instead it is just dump them on the street.
This is the real tech world folks. Keep your kids out of it unless they absolutely love it on their own. It is an ageist world which has no loyalty to workers at all, and falsely believes that people can't be retrained. It is not the kind of place you want to make a career out of unless it is your absolute passion, and even then you will be discouraged every day by things like this.
It's early, don't be so picky :-)
I mean really, we aren't that far off from it when we start eating this kind of heavily processed food. Why not just mix this stuff into solids and throw it in a bag and eat it out of a bowl?
It is not that hard to cook simple meals. Heck, cook up a big pot of something on one day, and eat leftovers if you are short on time. At least you know what is in it, and it is going to be much, much cheaper. I just cooked up a big pot of Himalayan bahl dat (lentils) and some spiced rice last night and I would be surprised if it took me 15 minutes of effort. I now have a healthy breakfast (this is actually what the Himalayans eat) for the week that costs me about 3 dollars. Throw a piece of chicken on the grill. How long does that take?
I am really surprised this kind of over processed food is even slightly popular in this day and age.